Local Sports

St. Marys track 3rd, 4th at Celina Relays

April 12, 2013

CELINA — The St. Marys girls track and field team took third and the Roughrider boys placed fourth at the Walt Shreffler Relays on Friday evening in Celina.

Celina swept the boys and girls titles. The Celina girls scored 110 points, outlasting second place Coldwater (94 points), St. Marys (66), Parkway (32), Rossford (22) and Waynesfield-Goshen (22).

The Bulldog boys won with 103 points ahead of second-place Coldwater (77 points), Waynesfield-Goshen (54), St. Marys (46), Parkway (42) and Rossford (20).

Voice of the Blue Jackets talks hockey with St. Marys Rotary

April 11, 2013

ST. MARYS — George Matthews spent 23 years teaching middle school  students in Summerside, Prince Edward Island in eastern Canada, all the while broadcasting minor league, college and junior hockey.  Often Matthews lent his voice to teams for little or no money. He spent hours driving to outposts of the hockey-crazed country, only to make that long drive back home so he could get up and teach the next morning.

New Bremen softball wins in 8th on Russell game-winning single

April 10, 2013

NEW BREMEN – The New Bremen  Cardinals softball team got a bases-loaded single from Chelsea Russell in the bottom of the eighth inning to give the Cardinals a 6-5 victory over the Sidney Lehman Cavaliers Tuesday at New Bremen.

New Bremen's Bertke tosses 2-hitter to beat Roughriders

April 9, 2013

NEW BREMEN — New Bremen’s Clay Bertke went from flirtling with a perfect game against the St. Marys baseball team to being in danger of losing the lead in the top of the sixth inning with the tying runs in scoring position and nobody out.

But Bertke overpowered the next three Roughrider hitters to maintain his shutout and steer the Cardinals to a 2-0 win over St. Marys on a blustery Monday night.

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